Tuesday, August 19, 2008

The Harper government promised yesterday to build a new $1-billion bridge between Montreal and the South Shore, just three weeks before a by-election in a suburban riding that would directly benefit from the new link.

Not to be outdone, this morning Liberal candidate Roxanne Stanners promised that, if elected and if the Liberals form the next government, the Liberals will use tax dollars to buy every voter in St. Lambert a pony.

I do agree the timing is suspect.... but with daily traffic jams and a 10-15 year prediction on how long it will take to construct the bridge.... I can only surmise that you must agree that it is past time it be considered.

Mike, work has been keeping me busy and I'm usually tired in the evenings, but I'm trying to blog more regularly. It's been the summer though, not much happening besides Harper's posturing.

Barcs, if the bridge needs to be fixed then it needs to be fixed, that may well be the case. But I bet there are a lot of bridges that need to be fixed. There's probably a very, very long list of urgent infrastructure projects across the country looking for federal funding. Does the most pressing project, the one at the top of the list, just happen to be in St. Lambert? And did it just happen to move to the top of the list during a byelection campaign?